Brenda Marshall's "Teaching The Postmodern" aims to provide an introduction to postmodernism accessible enough for the undergraduate reader and rigorous enough to inform and challenge the graduate student and professor. Designed for the classroom, "Teaching The Postmodern" reads both literary texts and theory. Marshall introduces the reader to key terminology and concepts: structuralism, poststructuralism, the critique of subjectivity, the critique of representation, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction, and counter-memory. Fiction by Italo Calvino, J.M. Coetzee, Michel Tournier, Christa Wolf, Salman Rushdie, Timothy Findley, and Toni Morrison roots the theory in practice. Taking on the notoriously inaccessible, "Teaching The Postmodern" sets out to demonstrate that postmodernism can be comprehensible, and even fun.

Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory

Literature & Fiction

Brenda K. Marshall

History & Criticism

Routledge

<p>The lives and schemes of frontier politicians, Northern Pacific Railroad executives, bonanza farmers, and homesteaders converge in the story of Frances Houghton Bingham, who marries the son of a Red River Valley bonanza farmer in order to remain near her new husband s sister. Emotionally complex, willful and resourceful, Frances is seduced by the myths of opportunity driving the settlement of Dakota Territory, and dares to dream of a new world in which to realize her unconventional desires. Providing a counterpoint to the dramatic risks taken by Frances is the generous voice of Kirsten Knudson, the daughter of Norwegian homesteaders. As Kirsten grows from a voluble girl to a formidable woman, her observations (equal parts absurdity and insight) reveal the heart of the novel.</p>

Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For

Literary

North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies

Dakota, or What's a Heaven For

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